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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

NASA rolls Artemis 2 moon rocket to launch pad | Space photo of the day for Jan. 19, 2025

An orange rocket held up by scaffolding sits behind large green bushes under a blue sky.

Since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, NASA has been looking for ways to return back to the moon. In 2022, the space agency launched the Artemis 1 moon mission, an uncrewed spacecraft that laid the foundations for the missions coming after it.

Now, three years later, Artemis 2 is slated for launch as the first crewed mission to return to our moon. But to get there, the rocket has to be moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to its designated launch pad.

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